ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 103, 17 September 1912, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A MIXER'S DEATH. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gore, Monday. A miner named Patrick Riordan left Waikaia on Saturday night on horseback, and was later found on the main road in an unconscious condition, 'between tlie township and Dome Creek. He was conveyed to Waikaia and died on Sunday morning at 6.30. Deceased was a well-known miner in the Waikaia and Roxburgh districts, where he had resided for thirty years. A MARKER SHOT. Christchureh, Monday. A young man named Thomas Lock had a narrow escape from death at Gust on Saturday. When marking in a Morris tube match a bullet hit him in the back. It struck a rib, circled round his body and lodged in his breast. The bullet has been extracted, and it is anticipated that he will make a good recovery, but if the bullet had struck him a fraction of an inch lower it might have killed him. BUSH FATALITY. Taihape, Monday. Lawrence Geange, aged 22, a single man, was fatally injured whilst falling bush on Bond's section on the MataroaMangaweka road near Manui on Saturday afternoon. He was felling a rimu, which broke the branches of a rata, and the latter, falling on Geange, fractured his skull. He died three hours afterwards. His parents reside in Hunterville.